An Echoic palimpsest describes a poem layered with repeated sounds, phrases, or motifs that accumulate like textual strata, where earlier “voices” remain audible beneath later revisions; this technique, central to trauma poetry and archival poetics, uses sonic recurrence to signify memory’s persistence, as in the fragmented echoes of M. NourbeSe Philip’s “Zong!” or the haunted refrains of Holocaust elegies.

A poem that reimagines earlier texts while retaining ghostly traces of the original, combining erasure techniques with echo effects. Related to erasure poetry and cento but emphasizes sonic/structural remnants. Experimental contemporary form.